A mother who became pregnant after months of gruelling cancer treatment suffered further heartache when her baby son was diagnosed with meningitis.

Nikki Anderson, 28, had feared she would never have another child after suffering a rare cancer of the adrenal gland.

But to her total surprise, she discovered she was pregnant after months of gruelling surgery and chemotherapy - only for baby Cody to be diagnosed with meningitis when he was just three weeks old.

Nikki Anderson, 28, had feared she would never have another child after suffering a rare cancer of the adrenal gland. But shortly after finishing gruelling chemotherapy, she discovered she was expecting baby Cody

Doctors discovered thetennis-ball sized tumouron top
of Mrs Anderson's kidney in August 2011 when looking for a cause for her
continual weight gain.

The tumour was causing her to overproduce testosterone - making her pile on the pounds - and stopping her from getting pregnant.

It
was removed a month later, and she endured three months of daily
chemotherapy before doctors found a second tumour, removed in May.